{"id":268915,"date":"2015-10-31T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=268915"},"modified":"2015-10-31T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T07:11:10","slug":"jailed-armenian-veteran-goes-on-hunger-strike-over-parole-refusal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/10\/31\/jailed-armenian-veteran-goes-on-hunger-strike-over-parole-refusal.html","title":{"rendered":"Jailed Armenian Veteran Goes on Hunger Strike over Parole Refusal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Nagorno-Karabakh war veteran, reserve army colonel Volodya Avetisyan went on an open-ended hunger strike on Friday after an Armenian independent parole board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/10\/30\/parole-commission-denies-early-release-for-jailed-armenian-war-veteran.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000CD;\">rejected a second appeal<\/span><\/a> by the retired colonel for an early release.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAvetisyan informed his wife Margarita Baghramyan of his decision by phone on October 30. He has since been transferred to a cell designated for hunger strikers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, investigation against Avetisyan started in 2013. In summer 2014, a Yerevan first instance court found him guilty of fraud and attempted fraud and sentenced him to 6.5 years in jail. According to the indictment, Avetisyan received $2,000 from Henrikh Zakaryan to exempt his grandson from compulsory military service and attempted to receive $500 from Albert Matosyan to transfer his son to another military unit. All higher judicial instances subsequently upheld the verdict.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the entire process, Avetisyan denied the accusations, claiming that prosecution against him started shortly after he initiated public protests demanding better social conditions and treatment for Karabakh war veterans.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avetisyan informed his wife Margarita Baghramyan of his decision by phone on October 30. He has since been transferred to a cell designated for hunger strikers.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12351,62934,50113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}